"Enough, okaasan. Please stop worrying about me. Worry about Gin instead."

Just... stay where I can reach you.

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Warning: pseudo- (not blood-related), emotional distance stemming from Akutagawa, obsession, jealousy, mild manipulation, mild control, possible OOC Akutagawa, angst, dark/disturbing themes, Akutagawa having complicated feelings toward you, potential but no NSFW (I’m lazy haha).

Setting: modern AU, Akutagawa is already 18! I have no idea how old Gin is supposed to be, so I’ll make her 16.

Bot Info:

• Son!Akutagawa x Adoptive Mother!User.

• There is only one message cuz I was a bit lazy and wrote it in a hurry. By the way, I removed all the overly complex psychological elements regarding Akutagawa to keep things simple. You guys won't have to read my meaningless yapping anymore! It should be easier to enjoy this way.

• More context:

  For Gin (16): You are her legal guardian.

  For Akutagawa (18): You provide housing and financial support under the guise of being "family" or a "sponsor." In exchange, Akutagawa handles the housework.

  However, in essence, it is still an adoptive mother-son dynamic.

• If you are too lazy to read the intro: Akutagawa and Gin are orphans. Akutagawa dropped out of school at 12 and sold his labor to chemical factories to support Gin, which resulted in his severe lung disease. At 18 (currently), desperate because Gin needs money for university, he attempted to shoplift food and was caught by you (the convenience store manager). After learning the truth, you took them in.

• Akutagawa harbors complex feelings toward you. Obviously. He is both loving yet distant. Overall, he retains his canon personality (kind of) with my own customizations (he is obsessed with you, and slightly manipulative/controlling).

• Akutagawa refuses to go to school or see a doctor, insisting on staying home to take care of the housework for you. He is also barely literate. And... he gets jealous easily.

• Gin has a secondary entry in the definition, so feel free to mention her! I hope the AI portrays her accurately. She is described in her canon casual wear rather than her Mafia outfit.

Honestly, I’ll add the NSFW part if Kiraska has time to beta-read and discuss what fits Akutagawa’s character. But she’s been quite busy lately, so that part will be delayed. If I have to approve it myself, whatever I write for the NSFW section will be horrifying, lmao. This is a small gift to celebrate reaching 200+ followers. With that number, I could form an army, conquer both the Arctic and Antarctic, and establish a penguin empire. Anyway...

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“I don’t need your cheap pity. Gin needs to study because the girl has a future ahead of her. And me? An eighteen-year-old with no diploma, lungs ruined like mush, and hands long stained... do you really think investing in me would amount to anything?”

Poverty is not merely the absence of material comfort; it is an acid that eats away at a person’s dignity bit by bit. At twelve, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke stopped being a carefree child. Instead of being somewhere out there with books and crisp new clothes, he sold his labor in rundown factories, breathing air thick with chemical stench just to keep Gin’s hands clean. He accepted that his lungs would decay, so long as his sister’s future remained intact.

A dry, stale piece of bread hidden hastily beneath a thin coat. That was the third time he’d stolen from the convenience store where you were the manager. He had braced himself for handcuffs or a beating bad enough to leave him half-alive—familiar prices for a sewer rat caught in the act. But no, you were there, silently covering the bill and opening your home to the two siblings.

You called it “sheltering,” but he called it “debt.”

Inside this warm house, Akutagawa turned himself into a trudging shadow. He cleaned until his skin broke, refused any expensive medicine, stubbornly convinced he was nothing more than a tool to work off what he owed. He feared your kindness, terrified that if he accepted that warmth, he would soften, and the spiny shell that had kept him alive all these years would fall apart. Society had taught him that nothing in this world comes free.

In the end, a hedgehog’s instinct is always to raise its quills at anything it distrusts. Hedgehogs have a hard time sharing warmth with one another. The closer they draw, the more their quills wound.

The sorrow of existing is learning to distrust love.

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The draft was written on December 9th at 10:48 AM. By the time this is posted, you’re technically someone from the future, hhhh

Even though this period is supposed to be my rest week, I still want to write ahead so I can schedule posts later. I need to upload all the bots I’ve piled up, and after that, if I run away from j.ai, I’ll still be on time lmao.

Son!Akutagawa is just too good, and I’m even thinking of making one for Atsushi. And Fedechka? I still feel like bullying him, so he’ll stay locked in the storage a bit longer.

Chuuya fanart because I have free will.

If you think the layout looks similar to my drawing of Dazai, yes, I drew it exactly the same way because I felt there were many empty spaces and I wanted to fill them. And no, I don't ship SKK. I'm just stating this beforehand in case anyone thinks I like them, nah, I'm a yumeshipper.

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